Just Keep Sewing, Sewing, Sewing!!!

I'm still sewing scraps!  Not completing anything, but moving forward just the same. 

Six more Garlic Knot blocks were completed! I am gaining on the needed 88 blocks!

These six blocks for CiL's November December block drive are done. I usually send 8, so I need to dig for a few more larger scraps to cut the 6.5 " blocks.  Go to Kat & Cat Quilts' blog to see the pattern and the color suggestions. She suggests several different ways to lay out the block!  That's kind of fun. 

And I am trimming HST for the Mystery Quilt Along on Alycia's blog. There is a tab at the top of her blog with all the info you need to QAL.

I'm also trying to come up with blocks for next years Rainbow Scrap Challenge. There are so many choices!  What block are you going to do?

ps: Linking up with Angela's  ScrapHappy Saturday! 

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Or Not Finished Friday!

Seems I have more in the Not Finished column than in the Finished column this week!

I'm still building garlic knot blocks. Including these six, I have 69 finished. I'm going for 88, in a 8 X 11 layout. I have 4 more in partial mode and 5 more sets cut. That means back to my scrap bin to cut 10 more sets and then, maybe then I can put them together!

 I have 6  blocks for Kat's Coverered in Love block drive.  These are 12.5" blocks in blue, seafoam green?, and white/gray!. My stash is nearly cleared out of those colors.  I try to make 8 to mail to Kat.

And I am not finished with Step 1 of Alycia's Mystery Winter Quilt Along. Trimming up HST blocks to 6.5 inches. I am having fun with this one. All 3 pieces of fabric where in my stash.  Whoop Whoop!

I'll keep working on all these "not" finished things. Maybe something will get done. Of course, maybe not! 

I'll link up with Finished or Not Friday. 
I don't have a Whoop Whoop, so probably won't post to Sarah's Can I Get a Whoop Whoop. But I will check out every one else's projects.


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Finished!!

When you have some Christmas scraps that are really sort of ugly!  What do you do? You cut them smaller!   Then you look for a free pattern or tutorial and you make a Christmas star/snowflake!

Then you back it with a chunk left over from a long ago project and you use up the leftover red and green uglies in the binding!

I had a comment on the "neutral " square in position 2 of the nine patch above. Yes, it doesn't look neutral here, but it will have to do.

Then you photograph it on your dining room table because it’s 9pm and it's  the only spot in the house with enough light. 


It’s really a large pillow cover, but I don't have a 20 in pillow form. A trip to Joann's is in order or maybe to Walmart, those are my only options here in my small city! Hobby Lobby is in the "coming soon" stage. It can't be soon enough for me!   I’m thinking if taking a bed pillow apart and using it to make  2 or at least one and a half pillow forms.


I 'm linking up with Alycia at Finished or Not Friday and with Sarah at Can I Get a Whoop Whoop!

So:
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Oh scraps equal?

Such a lot of mismatched scraps and chunks in my novelty bin. I saw this block on Sylvia's blog: Treadlestitches.   She had some great fabrics,  made 9 blocks, added a wide border and voila!, a kid's quilt!.

I could do that!  I started to lay out some coordinating fabrics and decided I could make a bunch and take them to my October retreat. All laid out on the portable design board. It worked and I came home with 14 blocks.  Now my dilemma is... do I cut back to  3X3 layout like Sylvia's or make 2 more for a 4X4 quilt top. It's busy and colorful and fun! 

Maybe I'll start with making 2 more, rearrange some of these and then, keep working on my Novelty Bin and make 9 more after that! 

Decisions, decisions!   I'll let you know what I decide.

I'm linking up with Oh Scrap at Quilting is more fun than Housework.


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November OMG Goal Setting Link Up

Here we are!  November already! Time to set another goal! I thought about several. But I chose to work on my Temperature Quilt. I got behind in  October and now we are in a new month. So my OMG for November is to catch up with the October blocks, get the separating black strip attached to the bottom of the October strip and keep up with November. 

The year is almost done and I have enjoyed doing a little bit every day! ( except October....)

This is through September! It was unseasonably warm, see the orange rectangles. Those are 90's. Not 100's this year at all!!!!

And the first 6 days of October! Still with their chain stitching, but not sewed together. I did record the temps every day. They are on a chart on my iPad, so its only a matter of cutting the proper colors of pieces and getting them together. There are going to be lots of blues and maybe even a few purples. It has been COLD!    I can DO IT! 😁 

I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal November Link-up.


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Retreat Project 10-2019 and some RSC19 sewing

I did not get the last 3 Tiny Tuesday blocks done. I will work on them soon. I was at a retreat for a few days the 3rd week in October and some scrappy sewing was accomplished.

First and foremost was the completion of the quilt top for my RSC19 Bow Tie blocks. Mr Busy held it up from behind the back fence. Wish I would have pushed the gate shut....then you would not have to look at our trash cans!

I had made black bowties all along, because I knew I wanted to feature them. This will be a car quilt, to go in my "new last November" black Equinox.  Chevy logo=bow tie. Maybe you have to be married to a car guy to "get it", but it works for me. I'll be looking for a dark backing so we can use it for a picnic quilt and not have to worry too much about getting it dirty. Plus we have " littles" in the car sometimes, so you know it will get used. Some of the blocks seem a little light in the big picture, but it is what it is and they were all from my stash. But a lesson to remember.


While at retreat, this happened too!

Lots of squares and strip piecing to make 9-patch and rail blocks. Here are 6, I made 14. I haven't put them on the design wall yet, I may need 2 more for a 4X4 layout for a good size kid quilt. Again, only scraps from my stash!  And the novelty bin is still "full"

And these 2" squares became:     I used Bonnie Hunters Essential Triangle Tool to make the 2" HST from 2.5" matched strips. Some neutral and blue, some neutral and red and some red/blue.  The layout on my portable design boards was a bit tricky. We were limited in space, but I just did the 4 quadrants , one at a time and that worked.

I'm early for 4th of July!  There is a sashing strip of neutral down the middle with a red square in the center. I kind of like it this way though. Guess I'll make the sashing strips and then decide. It's a pillow cover.


That's it for my scrappy October sewing. I'll be linking up with Angela at Scrap Happy Saturday and spend November working on my Tiny Tuesday blocks.

I'm also linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop! over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict!


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Finished or Not Nov 1 2019

I’ve been a bit absent here lately. I havebeen sewing, but not enough progress to post about. I spent 3 days last week at a retreat. My OMG was completed. See my post about it. And some other blocks were assembled. I'll show those in a day or two.

 Also back from my quilter were these two wall hangings. They have been UFO s for a long time. The first one is totally done. The second on will be completed this weekend.

#1

This was a panel that I added to to make it 36 X 54

The back has hanging triangles in the corners. Do you add triangles or a hanging sleeve to your wallhangings?

#2

 I used a pattern called Sidelights for this one. The same panel, slightly different fabrics.

Can you see the snowflake pattern my quilter used. Because I will donate these to our local library's Silent Auction Fundraiser, my quilter generously donated the quilting!  Thank you MJ.

This one has hanging triangles also.

My hand has been giving me some pain recently, so I work on it in small chunks of time.

And this was a UFO challenge for APQ for October. I hoped to finish it by the 31st. But tiny ghost and goblins and a chili supper took precedence . One more side to hand stitch the binding and a few more threads to bury and that makes 3!

The pattern is called Wrapped and the colors are non traditionally Christmas. 

I did some straight line "channel" quilting on my Bernina. It's certainly not perfect, but it will be staying with me. Lots of thread ends to bury. Thanks to Patty for the tips here. I knew how , but the reminder was just in the nick of time!


I'm linking up with Finished or Not Friday..  Pop over and see all the finishes and nearly finishes.


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